SparkFun Electronics Commentsurn:uuid:214d0e4e-f1b1-d287-ce26-ac5b4c9f82492018-02-17T22:14:03-07:00SparkFun Electronicsbrennen on Highlights from Lindsay's Trip to the Lonestar Statebrennenurn:uuid:30da5584-6e33-fe6a-0247-bda3a9af88cd2013-03-22T09:56:16-06:00<p>North and west of about Missouri, as far as I can tell, the default is unsweetened. My Kansas and Nebraska relatives drink pretty astonishing quantities of iced tea year round, but especially in the summer, and it definitely doesn&rsquo;t come with sugar in.</p>
<p>I think this is slowly changing as ever-more corn syrup (or other simple sugars if you&rsquo;re selling to people who&rsquo;ve heard that corn syrup is bad) makes its way into every available beverage. It&rsquo;s harder to buy unsweet tea at fast food joints and such than it used to be.</p>MoriFi on Highlights from Lindsay's Trip to the Lonestar StateMoriFiurn:uuid:0fc7e69f-80ae-e9f5-031c-577126084c7c2013-03-22T02:09:16-06:00<p>They do that there. Yike!</p>
<p>When your in the south you need it to replenish yourself after you sweat because of the heat &amp; humidity so we can get by drinking a gallon (or two) a day. haha</p>
<p>But really they do not sweeten it by default there?</p>brennen on Highlights from Lindsay's Trip to the Lonestar Statebrennenurn:uuid:10ef1933-7953-4361-5ee5-f51094165e472013-03-21T10:10:47-06:00<p>I&rsquo;m in the <a href="http://www.booksatoz.com/witsend/tea/orwell.htm" rel="nofollow" >George Orwell</a> camp re: tea flavor.</p>HelloTechie on Highlights from Lindsay's Trip to the Lonestar StateHelloTechieurn:uuid:0e88479f-bbfe-0479-6487-6c684888b0b52013-03-21T09:51:13-06:00<p>I love my sweet tea! Being in the midwest, when ordering tea (and forgetting to ask for sweetened tea), I still get confused on what they just gave me and think something got mixed up. Granted, my tea-sugar intake is anything but healthy&hellip; :)</p>Ichbinjoe on Highlights from Lindsay's Trip to the Lonestar StateIchbinjoeurn:uuid:9aaa03a3-989c-2447-5348-8e21d39306382013-03-20T20:10:30-06:00<p>Get your minds out of the gutters people.</p>MoriFi on Highlights from Lindsay's Trip to the Lonestar StateMoriFiurn:uuid:8086c8ab-0e16-0573-eb38-a3c14101fc412013-03-20T18:18:19-06:00<p>What&rsquo;s not to get about sweet tea. Staple of the south freaking awesome.</p>brennen on Highlights from Lindsay's Trip to the Lonestar Statebrennenurn:uuid:0b572f41-b449-354d-e465-00e6d57ac5dd2013-03-20T15:42:58-06:00<p>No, no, no, and no.</p>
<p>Edit: Just no.</p>brennen on Highlights from Lindsay's Trip to the Lonestar Statebrennenurn:uuid:e26766aa-254e-b377-7bea-0fcc3c22a9052013-03-20T14:57:59-06:00<blockquote><p>Do NOT mess with Texan BBQ (Who serves BBQ without sweet tea?)</p></blockquote>
<p>I still don&rsquo;t really understand sweet tea. This is probably a strong indication that I will never grok the American South.</p>
<blockquote><p>I was particularly impressed by Matt Waite, a professor of practice in journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications, who runs the Drone Journalism Lab. I had the opportunity to briefly chat with Matt following the panel and was really excited to hear about his journalism students learning to solder and hack hardware.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&rsquo;s always good to hear about UNL folks doing legitimately cool stuff. I took a class or two (the imprecision of this statement is directly related to how much of the rest of my time I was spending on beer and frisbee) from j-school faculty as an undergrad there and had some pretty great experiences as a result.</p>andy4us on Highlights from Lindsay's Trip to the Lonestar Stateandy4usurn:uuid:5dc8e24b-2c0d-f407-8f43-7b245bff242f2013-03-20T13:20:56-06:00<p>The cleanest I could come up with was that it was a hand giving the middle finger, but it&rsquo;s a stretch.</p>TheRegnirps on Highlights from Lindsay's Trip to the Lonestar StateTheRegnirpsurn:uuid:39d523ba-57ab-a861-2c27-f82472ad6b642013-03-20T13:07:48-06:00<p>I would love to talk about modern education some time. Meanwhile, if you think some of the kids are impressive, you should have seen the huge science fairs of the late 50&rsquo;s and early 60&rsquo;s. Aside from lots of things they would not let you do today, like a cloud chamber with a plutonium source, home made x-ray machines, electrophoresis apparatus, and accelerators that produced proton collisions - and plenty of cool stray radiation. The math was solid and very impressive and the bio experiments were darn good as well. My Jr. High science teacher had a pipe bomb building contest to settle a bet between factions of pyromaniacs. I pity the kids today with the toy paper rockets. When I was teaching (AP Physics, Chem, Math) I was always on the lookout for things we could do that at least had a fraction of the excitement back then.</p>
<p>Any interested physics teachers, I do have a nice project that is safe enough and explores a pile of principles and a clever way to make a measurement. I would be glad to collaborate. It is also a good Arduino Pro app.</p>rhino on Highlights from Lindsay's Trip to the Lonestar Staterhinourn:uuid:96932ad2-815e-a1f5-6ef7-273fb25060d82013-03-20T11:30:03-06:00<p>Oh please use this for a caption contest!</p>neurdy on Highlights from Lindsay's Trip to the Lonestar Stateneurdyurn:uuid:a2ca3676-977b-3aef-991b-3d1201888f812013-03-20T10:08:47-06:00<p>I have no idea what you&rsquo;re talking about ;)</p>RyeMAC3 on Highlights from Lindsay's Trip to the Lonestar StateRyeMAC3urn:uuid:144e9c79-82ef-9f06-1d80-964b6c9c0f2b2013-03-20T09:55:58-06:00<p>Yup, that&rsquo;s the first thing I thought of, before I even read the title of the post. Just loaded the page and went, &ldquo;Woah!&rdquo; I have a comment about that last pic too, but this is a family show.</p>thekanester on Highlights from Lindsay's Trip to the Lonestar Statethekanesterurn:uuid:a7db1cdf-1f24-fbc5-93d8-1fee4114cc562013-03-20T09:49:52-06:00<p>Hmmm&hellip;am I the only one to see that sign?</p>